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Dr
Sander Brouwer is assistant professor at the Department of European
Languages and Cultures at Groningen University, where he teaches
Russian and (post-)Soviet literature and cultural history. Noteworthy
among his multiple publications in these fields is his edited volume
Contested
Interpretations of the Past in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Film(Brill/Rodopi 2016). For
this volume, Brouwer collected a group of specialists in Polish,
Russian, and Ukrainian media from the Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine,
the UK, and the USA. In his own contribution ‘Tsar
Peter, Mazepa and Ukraine: A Love Triangle,’ he analyzes cultural commemoration
in Ukrainian cinema.

Mykola Makhortykh
is affiliated to the University of Amsterdam for a research project on
Second World War memory in Ukraine and its transformations in the
digital age. In recent research, Mykola explored the use of social media
in the context of the Ukrainian crisis and the role of cultural memory in
securitisation of the crisis. For his latest work on Twitter and the
conflict in Eastern Ukraine, click here.

Dr.
Arent
van Nieukerken
is assistant professor of Polish literature at the University of
Amsterdam’s Department of Slavic Languages & Cultures, and
Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Next to Polish
literature and culture, Van Nieukerken also researches and teaches on
Ukrainian literature, culture, and history; for a description of his
UvA Bachelor course ‘Between Warsaw, Vilnius and Kyiv:
Multi-ethnicity as a Way of Life and Strife,’ visit
this link.

Olga Ryabets is affiliated with the
University of Amsterdam for a research project on off-the-grid
apartment performances in Soviet-era Poland and Czechoslovakia.
Recently, her research also focused on post-post-Soviet culture,
archeology of the everyday and film
adaptations of Ukrainian literature. In
addition to her work with UvA, Olga is the founder and artistic
director of the Centre
for Aliative Research (CenAR), an international
research-as-practice platform with a focus on theatre and cognition.